grep treats "[m]yapp" as a regex, which will match "myapp" but not itself. That is, it won't match the exact string "[m]yapp" so the grep process won't show up

grep treats "[m]yapp" as a regex, which will match "myapp" but not itself. That is, it won't match the exact string "[m]yapp" so the grep process won't show up in the listing.